Tonight’s session will be hosted by #Satchat co-founder and author of 140 Twitter Tips for Educators, Brad Currie @bradmcurrie and online educator and NTC Director @bashomosko, with special guest @mshaughs, author of an amazing self-paced learning module available at teach.kqed.org titled Taking Charge of Social Media. We have set up a room on Participate Learning to make it easy to jump into the action!

If you just want to watch, here’s a link to the stream – no Twitter account necessary: http://bit.ly/stream_bettertogetherca

When you introduce yourself, please note  your level of comfort with social media for PD

Questions:

Q1: Why use social media to support PD? #BetterTogetherCA

Q2: Twitter anatomy – timeline, notifications, moments, messages, me – what they are and how to think of them #BetterTogetherCA

Q3: Navigating the flood of information – how to set up your account for success #BetterTogetherCA

Q4: Following, followers – what is it all about? Who should you follow and why? #BetterTogetherCA

Q5: Replies, retweets, likes – what is the etiquette and why? #BetterTogetherCA

Q6: Great uses for Twitter for educators and how. #BetterTogetherCA

Q7: Do’s and don’ts. #BetterTogetherCA

Thanks! Encourage folks to share a tweet and invite a colleague to get on Twitter so they can practice for our next chat on 10/3.